Will try to get a few more photos soon. Only now is it actually starting to look like a house inside at least. Hard to really get a decent photo outside as the place is so well shielded from all sides!

Thanks for the positive thoughts folks. It's been a bit of a rocky road getting here and the wishes from you folks have really helped.

Circa 1981, was built for the Homeworld 1981 expo as one of several eco homes on Bradwell Common. Must have looked quite the part back then.

We all like MK, it's quiet and generally uneventful which suits us, everything is within fifteen minutes and the redways are ideal for walking. Especially good as we will be getting a dog very soon, so ideal exercise areas is a bonus.

Circa 1981, was built for the Homeworld 1981 expo as one of several eco homes on Bradwell Common. Must have looked quite the part back then.

We all like MK, it's quiet and generally uneventful which suits us, everything is within fifteen minutes and the redways are ideal for walking. Especially good as we will be getting a dog very soon, so ideal exercise areas is a bonus.

There's a decent theatre presence there in MK too... or, at least there was ten years ago.

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"In dreams your spirit visits higher realms and watches over the shaping of this reality. That is why dreams have power and why sometimes they show the future." The Secret Sky by Jeanine Berry

Today I'm meeting the lady who has framed a couple things for me. I'm taking her the portion of the Moreta book cover by Whelan that I did for a second time for myself. I have a spot on the livingroom wall planned for it. I would not do this again. After doing the full picture for Anne and part of it twice, that is enough! There have been times when I have thought about giving this away but Anne's work brought so much of interest to my life, some bad but mostly good that I think having it here is only right. When it's hanging I'll take a picture.

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All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

Dr. gave up on Seth having seizure at hospital & sent him home yesterday. Typical little boy, as soon as Melissa got him buckled in he had one. She is suppose to take him back today for a sleep study. Not sure if she is going to or not. I think she has seen enough of UVA for a few days at least. Emmi has a no sleep EEG on the 29th.

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I've been digging dandelions out of the lawn. It seems like for every one I dig out, eight pop up. Darn weeds. We put some stuff on the lawn last year that was supposed to get rid of them. That was a waste of money.

We're leaving Friday for DisneyWorld. I can't wait. I am so looking forward to being warm, maybe even hot. It has been a long, cold winter. I sure hope the Seven Dwarfs ride is open. It should definitely be open when the kids go in late June but we want to ride too! We have tickets to Cirque de Soleil. We've watched it on tv and we're excited to see it live.

I'm afraid getting the picture framed is going to have to wait for me to find a different framer. This person did a great job on the other two items but since she has moved and started working from her house she's become rather flakey and flighty. I just don't trust giving her something that took me many months to make. When we get home I'll find someone else.

__________________What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

The charity auction had something I REALLY, REALLY, wanted. A Pern box, it had several paper back books, which I already had. It also had the Pern atlas & the Pern board game. The only other person bidding was able to easily out bid me. Oh well maybe next time.

Kibby has fallen in love with the Steam Punk look. I had gotten a corset for me that was way to small and gave it to Kibby a couple of weeks ago. Someone at the con was able to show me how to lace it right. I'll post a pic of Kibby in it later.

I mostly went to writers panels and work shop, which were all good. Kibby spent the weekend live action roll playing. She had a great time. Sat. she stayed at the con hotel instead of coming back with me to our hotel. We were 2 miles away. Hubby went with us, but mostly stayed in the room. He is having problems with a knee. He did manage to make it to the dealers room, which was much better than the last con I went to.

Good new from my niece's house hold. Madison (9) won first place in a writing competition
for all of Lynchburg city elementary and I think middle schools. There will be a special award ceremony at Popular Forest on thurs. It is good to hear some good news from Melissa for a change.

I like the steampunk look too, Mawra. I'm glad you heard good news. Congrats to Melissa's daughter.

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Why does my family attract all the rear medical problems? Melissa got the MRI from Emmi back. She does not have Chiari Malformation like Seth or Tuberous sclerosis complex like Robin. Hers is completely different. She has a cyst pressing on a glad deep in the brain.

It can cause major behavior problems and sleep problems. I am not sure what else. There are only 3 Dr. experts in the world for this. One is in Texas, one in L.A and one in Australia. None anywhere near us. The Dr. has not told Melissa very much about it yet. From what was found on line there is a surgery for it, but since it is so deep into the brain it is very risky. Some people never have symptoms. With the behavior problems she is having she is not likely to be symptom free.

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1. Washed the Saab and Peugeot after they were both attacked by a blackbird that has a nest near to the driveway.

2. Started cleaning the lockblock paving around the side and back of the house. It's actually red brick, not concrete grey as appeared to be the case before. Now just another three and a half square miles to clean...

3. Did a "dry" build of the BBQ that I'll be building properly tomorrow to ensure I had enough bricks laying around. No problem it turned out, and I could probably build three of them.

4. Attempted to enable our solar water heating system...and discovered that it appears to already be enabled...Oh well, one less job I need to do!

5. Replaced the low temperature warning lamp for the above system.

6. Did battle with my web server. Firstly moved it to the other side of the house as the wireless coverage where it was simply isn't good enough. Will probably route some cat5 cable to that location in the end as it's an obvious place for it.

Then discovered that it was playing funny business. Was still randomly dropping off the network, and then that it was randomly losing comms with the hard drive. Initially suspected that the drive may be dying (it's ancient...see also, about 8 gig in size and it's sounded as though the bearings are made of gravel for years), but some further poking eventually revealed that it was all due to a dodgy USB cable of all things. Now seems to be up and running again. Fingers crossed. Failing that I might need to actually give it some attention and see what else I can find in the scrap box.

7. Last job for the day, replaced the lamp in the mains power on indicator on the heating control panel, as it being out was driving my OCD mad. Also means that it now makes the utility room look like a mad scientists lab at night.

Boaz, my oldest, was hospitalized today. He was having a hard day at high school, then started talking about suicide even including a plan so a 50/51 was called. The department of mental health came out, spent time with him and decided he was serious. He is currently in Alhambra on a 72 hour hold. I will go see him tomorrow. I don't know if he was serious but I do know that he refuses/can't/won't (I don't know and he may or may not know) to deal with the core issues concerning his dad that have him angry, hurt and so much more. I just know he's been building up to this and I'm glad he's there instead of arrested. He doesn't want to hurt anyone, its just when he loses it he breaks things or hurts himself and as a 6 foot 1 inch 16 year old, he scares people who don't know him. Every time the school called I was afraid they would tell me he had been arrested. I love him deeply. I've done everything I know to help him deal with the problems he has but he's just continued to self-destruct. I really hope he seeks help dealing with his emotional traumas. Thanks for listening.

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"In dreams your spirit visits higher realms and watches over the shaping of this reality. That is why dreams have power and why sometimes they show the future." The Secret Sky by Jeanine Berry

Boaz, my oldest, was hospitalized today. He was having a hard day at high school, then started talking about suicide even including a plan so a 50/51 was called. The department of mental health came out, spent time with him and decided he was serious. He is currently in Alhambra on a 72 hour hold. I will go see him tomorrow. I don't know if he was serious but I do know that he refuses/can't/won't (I don't know and he may or may not know) to deal with the core issues concerning his dad that have him angry, hurt and so much more. I just know he's been building up to this and I'm glad he's there instead of arrested. He doesn't want to hurt anyone, its just when he loses it he breaks things or hurts himself and as a 6 foot 1 inch 16 year old, he scares people who don't know him. Every time the school called I was afraid they would tell me he had been arrested. I love him deeply. I've done everything I know to help him deal with the problems he has but he's just continued to self-destruct. I really hope he seeks help dealing with his emotional traumas. Thanks for listening.

And on MSN this morning there was a story about a 16 year old who made a bomb threat. He was arrested, part of his school and apartment building was evacuated when police discovered what looked like a partial bomb in his room. Turned out it contained no explosives, but was a very well made dummy.

I read through it and decided, much to my great relief, that it wasn't your son. I sure hope he's doing better.

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Really sorry to hear that Moonlady. Really hope that things work out. We had similar issues with a member of our family a year or so back so can understand how hard it is. Will be keeping my fingers crossed for some good news.

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"In dreams your spirit visits higher realms and watches over the shaping of this reality. That is why dreams have power and why sometimes they show the future." The Secret Sky by Jeanine Berry